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Scott Andrew illustrates a common misunderstanding about CSS: CSS is for separating structure, not content, from presentation. Saying it is for separating content from presentation is, if not downright wrong, at least an oversimplication:

"Markup is meant to give meaningful structure to content. The content can come from a database or text files; the structure from page templates, a CMS or XSL transformation. Keeping your content free of meaningless structural elements allows you to pour your content into another structure suitable for different devices. CSS allows you to apply client-appropriate and easily-varied visual style to that structured output, without having to alter your markup."

UPDATE

Also read this follow-up, where Scott tells about the display:block property.

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